8 h. ago Olympic athlete told she was 'too fat' to compete after giving birth and accuses Nike of including 'anti

Blanca Manchon, 38, enjoyed a glittering career on the water after competing at her first Olympic Games as a 17-year-old - and went on to win seven world championships.

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34 h. ago Ben Proud admits ‘huge financial incentive’ is behind decision to join Enhanced Games

Swimmer is first British athlete to sign up for eventProud: ‘These are opportunities I cannot pass by at 30’Olympic swimming silver medallist Ben Proud, the first British athlete to sign up for the Enhanced Games, has accepted he risks sullying his reputation but admitted he is chiefly motivated by the potential huge financial rewards in the twilight of his career.The swimmer told the BBC Today programme on Thursday: “There’s a huge financial incentive with this and I would be lying if I said it didn’t matter. If you look at the facts it would take me 13 years of winning world championship titles just to earn what I can win at one competition at the Enhanced Games. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Olympic medallist Ben Proud becomes first British athlete to join Enhanced Games

Swimmer won silver for GB in the Paris pool last summerEvent allows athletes to take performance-enhancing drugsThe Olympic swimming medallist Ben Proud has become the first British athlete to join the Enhanced Games, an event that allows athletes to take performance-enhancing drugs.The 30-year-old, who won silver in the 50m freestyle in Paris last summer, does not believe the event undermines clean sport. “I think [the Enhanced Games] opens up the potential avenue to excel in a very different way,” he told BBC Sport. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Senator’s visit to spy agency canceled after MAGA firebrand Laura Loomer intervenes

Senator Mark Warner described Laura Loomer as “a figure with a long history of extreme and outlandish fringe views, including 9/11 denialism, anti-Muslim harassment campaigns, and associations with white supremacists”

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1 week ago Olympic champion Gabby Thomas will miss World Athletics Championships with injury

American won three golds at Paris 202428-year-old has been dealing with achilles injuryOlympic champion Gabby Thomas will miss this month’s World Athletics Championships with an achilles tendon injury she’s been dealing with since May. Thomas, who won the 200m in Paris and was on the 4x100m and 4x400m gold-medal relay teams, said she exacerbated the injury in July.“I understand that it will be disappointing for some track fans to hear this news, but I’ve finally come to the realization that it’s OK to be human and take care of myself,” Thomas said in a press release on Tuesday. “As an athlete you always want to keep grinding, but sometimes you simply can’t outwork an injury. Sometimes it’s about patience and making the right decision for the long term. All the best to my Team USA teammates fighting for medals in Tokyo.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Olympic champion Gabby Thomas ruled out of Tokyo World Championships

The 28-year-old will miss out on the chance to improve on her silver medal from the 2023 World Championships in Budapest

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1 week ago Canary Wharf carnage: Pepper spray fired inside shopping centre as police clash with masked anti

Several people, including at least one child, are pepper sprayed as anti-migrant hotel protest descends into chaos

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1 week ago Canary Wharf carnage: Police fire pepper spray inside shopping centre in clash with masked anti

Several people, including at least one child, are pepper sprayed as anti-migrant hotel protest descends into chaos

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1 week ago Australia’s pole vault queen Nina Kennedy: ‘I’m in full force to go to the world champs’ | Jack Snape

The Paris gold medallist opens up on her comeback from surgery, her longtime US rival, and the inner ‘mongrel’ that drives her to winThe best female pole vaulter on the planet is Australia’s only reigning Olympic athletics champion, and she will compete in Tokyo in two weeks at the world championships to defend the gold she won in 2023. But while spectators will recognise the Australian as she walks into Japan’s National Stadium, they will in truth see a different Nina Kennedy.“I don’t have full confidence in my body,” the 28-year-old says, two weeks out from an unprecedented challenge in her esteemed career. “But that’s OK, because I have learned that there are a hundred ways to get the same outcome, and we’re just going a different route to normal.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Georgia Hunter Bell to challenge Keely Hodgkinson in 800m as Great Britain’s World Championship team announced

World champions Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Josh Kerr also handed wildcards to compete

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3 w. ago By sanctioning journalists, the Kremlin admits how much the truth hurts | Rafael Behr

I’ve been accused of ‘anti-Russia narratives’ but Russia has many stories – including resistance against tyrannyThere is a Russian proverb: don’t blame the mirror if your face is crooked. I first came across it as the epigraph to The Government Inspector, Gogol’s 1836 masterpiece satirising corruption and hypocrisy in the provinces of the tsar’s empire.The phrase sprang to mind last week when I learned that a 21st-century government inspector is displeased with things I have written about Vladimir Putin and his imperial war against Ukraine – the land of Gogol’s birth. This I know because my name has been added to the “stop list”, a growing roster of undesirable elements – politicians, journalists, charity workers, consultants – banned from entering the Russian federation.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Olympic champion Gabby Thomas demands drastic change to stop doping in athletics

American sprinter Thomas, who won three gold medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics, wants to target coaches with chequered doping pasts

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3 w. ago JK Rowling attacks 'cheat' trans athlete who slammed Donald Trump over LA Olympics ban

In August, the Deparment of Homeland Security updated visa rules to stop transgender women traveling to the United States to compete in elite sporting events.

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3 w. ago Keely Hodgkinson's massive net worth, new life after Olympics, reason for boyfriend split

Keely Hodgkinson is set to return to the track this weekend in her first outing since she scooped gold at the Paris Olympics last summer having been sidelined through injury

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3 w. ago The two exercises that give Moses Itauma ‘the edge’ over most opponents

Olympic weightlifting is a supreme tool for developing a powerful athlete – this is why it is a key part of Moses Itauma’s training

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4 w. ago World's first robot OLYMPICS get off to a rocky start: Humanoids from 16 nations crash and collapse as they attempt to compete in boxing, athletics, and football

At one of the first events - five-aside football - 10 robots the size of seven-year-olds shuffled around the pitch, often getting stuck in a scrum or falling over en masse.

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last month Asylum seeker at Epping migrant hotel is charged with sexual assault after Ethiopian charged for 'attacking girls' in a separate incident sparked huge protests

Mohammed Sharwarq, a Syrian national living at the Bell Hotel in Epping, faces seven charges linked to offences alleged to have been committed between July 25 and August 12.

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last month Syrian asylum seeker, 32, is charged with sexually assaulting male while staying at protest

Mohammed Sharwarq, a Syrian national living at the Bell Hotel in Epping, faces seven charges linked to offences alleged to have been committed between July 25 and August 12.

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last month Sha’Carri Richardson apologizes to boyfriend Christian Coleman after airport domestic violence arrest

Sprinter Richardson was arrested on a domestic violence offence for allegedly assaulting Coleman at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

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last month Sha’Carri Richardson apologises to boyfriend Christian Coleman after airport domestic violence arrest

Sprinter Richardson was arrested on a domestic violence offence for allegedly assaulting Coleman at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

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